I suggest you make 3. One for root, one for /home, and one for swap. The swap
file is small, about 128 MB should do depending on how much RAM you have.
Then allocate at least 2 GB for root / and at least 500 MB for /home. It's
sorta dependent on what you feel like setting up however. There are many
guides/opinions on the ideal partition setup (Mandrake probally has their
ideal setup on their website somewhere), but you can't go wrong with what
I've suggested.
> This is my very first post. hope it doesn't violate any of your rules.
>
> When I try and install my 7.2 powerpack deluxe distro I get to the stage of
> repartitioning my hard disk. The software gives you a choice of three
> options. The manual says that if you choose the middle option it will
> automatically repartition your hard disk for Linux use (I don't want to get
> rid of windows). When I select the middle option (use free space on the
> windows partition) it gives me this error message:
> Partitioning failed: The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition,
> the following error occured: Can't locate object method "new" via package
> "resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install/install-interactive.pm line
> 108, <> line 6.
>
> Whats up?
> If the installation software can't repartition my hard drive then I'll have
> to do it myself. How many partitions do I need to make with diskdrake and
> what do I need to set the mounting points as?
>
> David Gentle
> Blogdex: http://www.webtribe.net/d/davidgentle/info.html
> icq:92994844
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